New This Week at Book View Café

This week Book View Café is pleased to bring out the ebook edition of
Skye Object 3270a by Linda Nagata

In an isolated star system far from any other human outposts, a space-faring "lifeboat" was discovered by a scientist from the city of Silk. Inside the lifeboat was a two-year-old girl in frozen sleep. She had no name and no history. The people of Silk believed her to be the only survivor of a star-faring great ship attacked in the void and destroyed by the automated
warships of the alien Chenzeme. They rescued and revived the child, and named her "Skye."

But the people of Silk face dangers of their own. Their city is in space, built around the column of a space elevator that rises from the planet's surface into high orbit. Three hundred kilometers below is the wild, plague-ridden planet called Deception Well. Far-above, a dusty nebula shrouds the star system. The nebula is made of drifting dust, gas, and tiny nanomachines left behind by an ancient and mysterious race. The microscopic nanomachines were made to attack and destroy any Chenzeme ship that enters the system ... but they will defend against other threats too, and they have no loyalty to human life.

Still, life in Silk is comfortable, and the dangers of their world mean little to the city's youth. Skye has grown into an adventurous, independent teen--but more and more she wonders about her mysterious past. Where did she come from? Who were her parents? And, most importantly, was she really the only survivor? When evidence of her past begins to awaken within her own body, Skye finds herself driven to explore both the dangerous surface of
Deception Well and the airless reaches of outer space.

She is not alone in her quest. Her best friend Zia Adovna, the handsome young astronomer Devi Hand, and the adventurous Buyu Mkolu join her as she seeks to prove that other survivors of the great ship might still be found.

$4.45
available as PDF, mobi or epub

Advanced Middle grade/young adult science fiction
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-9831100-4-0
Print ISBN: 978-0-9831100-7-1


REVIEWS:

From Library Thing Early Reviewers (http://www.librarything.com/work/
11297199)

"Excellent story. Once you start the book, you will not be able to
stop." -- roadway2000

"This reads very quickly and I was through it before I realized. All in all
an excellent story." -- Gord.Barker

"In short, Nagata, I think, has a good chance with this work to accomplish
her goal of infecting the next generation with the meme of science fiction,
the love of plausible speculation and the wonder of science. And adults like
me will be happy to follow along."- RandyStafford

"Skye Object 3270a is certainly one of the best books I've read and I
encourage anyone who enjoys an adventurous story to pick this one
up."-KaelebsMomma

"I ended up reading this straight through in one sitting."-cwallen

From Amazon US (http://www.amazon.com/Skye-Object-3270a-ebook/
product-reviews/B004FGMU7G/)

"I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It combined the best of both science fiction and young adult: likeable teenage characters struggling to find their place in a high-tech alien world."-- Joe Vasicek

"An excellent book for the young adult reader."-- Jill from Pgh

"In short, Nagata, I think, has a good chance with this work to accomplish her goal of infecting the next generation with the meme of science fiction, the love of plausible speculation and the wonder of science. And adults like me will be happy to follow along."-Randy Stafford